TY - JOUR
T1 - Individuals' perception of others' self-esteem, psychological well-being and attractiveness
T2 - Role of body size and peers' comments among Japanese and Americans
AU - Taniguchi, Emiko
AU - Lee, Hye Eun
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 Western Social Science Association.
PY - 2015/6/1
Y1 - 2015/6/1
N2 - From a cross-cultural perspective, this study investigates how individuals form impressions of others' self-esteem, psychological well-being, and physical attractiveness as a function of others' body size as well as messages these others receive from their peers. Mock-up Facebook profile pages in which the body size of the profile owner (thin vs. overweight) and peer-generated messages (accepting vs. thin-encouraging) were manipulated in the study. After viewing a Facebook profile page online, American and Japanese females completed a questionnaire. Japanese, but not Americans, (a) believed a profile owner who received thin-promoting messages to have higher psychological well-being than a profile owner who received accepting messages, (b) assumed an overweight profile owner to have lower self-esteem than a thin profile owner, and (c) perceived a thin profile owner as more physically attractive than an overweight profile owner.
AB - From a cross-cultural perspective, this study investigates how individuals form impressions of others' self-esteem, psychological well-being, and physical attractiveness as a function of others' body size as well as messages these others receive from their peers. Mock-up Facebook profile pages in which the body size of the profile owner (thin vs. overweight) and peer-generated messages (accepting vs. thin-encouraging) were manipulated in the study. After viewing a Facebook profile page online, American and Japanese females completed a questionnaire. Japanese, but not Americans, (a) believed a profile owner who received thin-promoting messages to have higher psychological well-being than a profile owner who received accepting messages, (b) assumed an overweight profile owner to have lower self-esteem than a thin profile owner, and (c) perceived a thin profile owner as more physically attractive than an overweight profile owner.
KW - Cross-cultural research
KW - Facebook
KW - Fat talk
KW - Psychological well-being
KW - Self-esteem
KW - Weight bias
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84929262902&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.soscij.2014.10.006
DO - 10.1016/j.soscij.2014.10.006
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84929262902
SN - 0362-3319
VL - 52
SP - 217
EP - 228
JO - Social Science Journal
JF - Social Science Journal
IS - 2
ER -